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Tutankhamun's 'Delicate' Face Reconstructed Digitally for First Time {3,000 Years)
The National News ^ | Jun 01, 2023

Posted on 06/01/2023 11:07:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Rendering was published in Italian science journal this week

Scientists from Australia, Italy and Brazil have digitally rendered King Tutankhamun’s face, the first time this has been done.

The boy king ascended to the throne of Egypt aged nine as one of the rulers of the 18th dynasty, until he died aged 19.

The researchers, whose efforts to reconstruct King Tutankhamun's face encountered several obstacles, such as access to his skull, eventually published their findings in a new study in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology.

The team used computer-generated models supplemented with pre-recorded measurements of King Tutankhamun's remains to render his face.

Beyond King Tut: National Geographic marks 100th anniversary of tomb discovery As the team did not have access to the skull itself, they imputed a digital scan of another and then adjusted the dimensions according to the measurements available to the team through other studies.

They were then able to approximate the shape of the pharaoh’s facial features including the size of his lips, the position of his eyes and the shape of his nose.

The reconstructed face looked markedly similar to a sculpture of the boy king found on the head of a lotus flower unearthed with his tomb, according to Michael Habicht, an Egyptologist and archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia and co-author of the study.

The reconstructed version was noted in the study for its youthfulness.

"He looks like a young man with a delicate face," said Brazilian graphic designer and one of the study’s co-author Cicero Moraes.

"Looking at him, we see more of a young student than a politician full of responsibilities, which makes the historical figure even more interesting."

King Tutankhamun's burial chamber was discovered in 1922 by renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings necropolis in Luxor.

It is one of the few ancient Egyptian tombs which were found almost intact, with treasures buried with the pharaoh still inside.

Other royal tombs had been repeatedly raided by graverobbers.

The Tutankhamun artefacts, 5,398 pieces in all, most of which are made of gold, are stored at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is still under construction.

Eighteen of the more modest pieces from the collection are on display at the Egyptian Museum in the capital's Tahrir Square.


TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: egypt; kingtut; tutankhamun
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To: dfwgator

As usual ...the comments are the best humor on FR.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 11:33:41 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Red Badger
"Now if I'd known..."

It's not too late!

The Tutankhamun artefacts, 5,398 pieces in all, most of which are made of gold, are stored at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which is still under construction....

22 posted on 06/01/2023 11:38:57 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

They keep digging up stuff....................


23 posted on 06/01/2023 11:40:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Is that Charlene and Camillus?

The same is true of the British “royal” family.


24 posted on 06/01/2023 11:40:16 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

This is what happens when you have six generations of inbreeding...........That’s why they wanted Diana and now Kate...................


25 posted on 06/01/2023 11:42:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Lockbar
Buried in his jammies!!
26 posted on 06/01/2023 11:43:39 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: nickcarraway
"He looks like a young man with a delicate face,"

Put him in a onesie, give him a hot chocolate & he'd look pretty much like this.

27 posted on 06/01/2023 11:44:16 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Red Badger

they both got an arrow through the head...


28 posted on 06/01/2023 11:53:49 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: nickcarraway
The Tutt Brothers


29 posted on 06/01/2023 11:58:51 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Red Badger

He was a tranny?


30 posted on 06/01/2023 11:59:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: nickcarraway

I thought he was black?


31 posted on 06/01/2023 12:18:54 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: Craftmore

Not yet, but who knows what the future holds.


32 posted on 06/01/2023 1:00:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: nickcarraway

Looks like he was about to ask for a second bowl of porridge.


33 posted on 06/01/2023 1:02:43 PM PDT by SIDENET (Whatever they're threatening, the vaxx is worse. Don't give in to coercion. )
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To: nickcarraway
Too easy, I know.


34 posted on 06/01/2023 1:07:17 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: HonkyTonkMan

I watch that video about once a week. Love it.


35 posted on 06/01/2023 1:07:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
Total off-topic - but yeah fun times for sure. I watched Fletch again recently and forgot how good it was. Chevy's character says things under his breath that are hilarious.

On SNL Kevin Nealon nailed Mr. Subliminal, but I bet CC would have done that role justice too!

36 posted on 06/01/2023 1:12:36 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: kabar

Looks like any illegal crossing the TexMex border


37 posted on 06/01/2023 1:32:37 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Red Badger

38 posted on 06/01/2023 1:33:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

covid001


39 posted on 06/01/2023 1:46:34 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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covid001

LOL!

40 posted on 06/01/2023 2:52:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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